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(No Model.)

J. JENKINS.

SAFETY PIN. No. 281,190. Patented July 10, 1883'.

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- UNITED STATES JOEL JENKINS, OF MONTGLAIR, NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE P. FARMER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,190, dated July 10, 1883. Application filed January 11, 1883. (No model.)

To all: whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OEL JENKINS, of Montclair, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safetyl'zins; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the ac companying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has for its object an improve ment in safety-pins; and the invention consists in a safety-pin with the spring thereof provided with a loop, through which passes the rear portion of the pointed wire, whereby the 1001) may act as a fulcrum for the wire, as and for the purpose hereinafterparticularly described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig ure 1 is a side elevation of my pin. Fig. 2 is an edge view of my pin. Fig. 3 is perspective view of my pin enlarged.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

The general construction of safety or spring pins being familiar, they need not now be particularly described. In most all of them, as is well known, the spring is made by forming the wire into one or more coils at the base of the pin; but with such construction the condensing of the spring to render its resilient force sufficiently strong to keep the point of the pin securely within the shield was of small degree, and such force was largely due to the elasticity of the pointed wire itself. Therefore, to render the spring more uniformly effective, so that it shall. exert its full force when required, I construct my pin with its spring A formed into a loop, a, through which loop is passed the rear portion of the pointed wire B in such manner asto permit the rear of the pointed wire to rest on the folded endor bight b of the loop, which acts as a fulcrum,

so that when the pin from its open position is brought down to permit its point to enter the shield G it bears upon the fulcrum and coin 4 5 pels both of the coils c of the spring to be condensed with certainty, each to the same extent, and without necessarily bending the pointed wire or depending upon its elasticity to keep its pointed end within the shield.

The manner of forming the loop a in the spring may depend upon the skill of the manufact-urer, since there are several ways of doing it. I e I am aware that one Presize heretofore pat 5 outed a safety-pin with a loop formed in the spring; but in that pin the rear of the pointed wire traveled between the sidesof the loop, when the wire was brought down to insert its point in the shield. Therefore the bight b of the loop a. did not act as a fulcrum, as in my present invention.

From the foregoing description of the construction of my safety-pin, it will be seen that the loop I) also answers another purpose from that describedvigz., it acts as a stop to prevent the fabric through which the pin is inserted from working back between the coils of the spring.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. Asafety-pin with its spring formed into a loop and the rear portion of its pointed wire passed through said loop and resting on the folded end Z) of the same, as on a fulcrum, substantially as shown and described.

A sa-fetypin with its spring formed into a loop, and a rear end of the pointed wire passed through said loop and resting on the folded end I) of the same, whereby said loop forms a stop, as and for the purpose described.

JOEL JENKINS.

WVitnesses:

G. M. PLYMPTON, Jno. N. BRUNs. 

